Download or read book Center Places and Cherokee Towns written by Christopher B. Rodning and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Center Places and Cherokee Towns, Christopher B. Rodning discusses the ways architecture and other aspects of the built environment, such as hearths, burials, and earthen mounds and embankments, formed center places within the Cherokee cultural landscape of the southern Appalachians from A.D. 1400 through 1700.